The War. Japanese Preparations
LONDON, Friday.—General Kuropatkin, the Russian Commander in the Far East, reports that a strong Japanese guard of infantry and…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1904
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The War. Message From the Czar
LONDON, Saturday.—The Czar has expressed his thanks to General Kuropatkin, the Russian Commander in the Far East, for the splendid and heroic…
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LONDON, Monday.—Seventeen officers of the kieff district have been openly tried by court-martial for declaring that a further attempt to…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—General Kuropatkin, the Russian Commander-in-Chief, reports that on Saturday, the 17th instant, a reconnaissance showed…
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LONDON, Wednesday Afternoon. General Kuropatikin reports that his cavalry, with machine guns, on Tuesday repulsed two attacks by the…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Mr. John Hay, the United States Secretary of State; in a long dispatch, dated August 30, protested against the decision of the…
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LONDON, Friday. Madame Stoessel, the wife of the commandant, was wounded in the shoulder during the engagement, while attending to the…
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The details given by Mr. Pretyman in the House of Commons recently as to the shipbuilding programme of the present year show that the new battleships ant…
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LONDON, Friday.—Reuter's correspondent at Mukden reports that a battle is expected hourly at Fushun, 30 miles to the east of Mukden…
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LONDON, Saturday.—The headquarters of the Japanese commander, General Kuroki, have been established at Pensiku to the east of Mukden…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—Russian dispatches indicate that the Japanese [?]anking movement in the neighbourhood of Mukden is developing into…
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LONDON, Thursday.—The operations of the Japanese at Port Arthur are largely directed against the positions eastwards of the railway. These…
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In a report published recently, the Committee, of Public Accounts state that, out of the total sum of £1,250,000 issued to the Imperial Yeomanry Committee,…
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There is a very pretty little controversy going on between the manager of one of our principal theatres and an influential Melbourne daily newspaper. The former…
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LONDON, Friday.—The correspondent of the French newspaper, "Le Matin," at St. Petersburg, states that General Stoessel reports that the…
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Yesterday I met a Reservist soldier accompanied by his mother and wife. All three were riding in a cart; he had had a drop too much; his wife's face was…
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LONDON, Saturday.—"The Times" publishes a message from its Tokio correspondent to the effect that a change in the Japanese military…
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LONDON, Saturday.—Advices from Mukden stale that the Japanese have fortified a position north-west of the Yentai Mines. The forces under the…
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LONDON, Tuesday.—The train in which Admiral Alexieff was escaping to Harbin after the capture of Liao-yang by the Japanese, came on into collision…
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LONDON, Thursday.—Lieutenant-General Sakharoff, General Kuropatkin's Chief of Staff, reports that Chunchuses, officered by Japanese, hold the…
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